William Wegman – Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Videotapes

Date: 11 lug 1990 ( Travel Exhibitions )

Institution: New York Kunsthalle *

The printing presented on the occasion of the exhibition at Centre Pompidou bore a different cover, but the content remained the same. The exhibition visited the ten museums in the period from 1990 (the year of its first presentation, at Kunstmuseum Luzern) to 1992: Kunstmuseum Luzern; ICA, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; (...) A, Boston; Whitney Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Houston; Ringling Museum, Sarasota; Neuberger Museum at the State University of New York, Purchase, N.Y. At the end of the tour, the show had been seen by more than one hundred thousand visitors at the Whitney Museum alone, and thirty thousand catalogues had been sold. The success of the show was so great as to lead several times to its renewed presentation, and it presented Wegman’s work (this was his first retrospective at an American museum) in the light of all the various fields in which he operated, inclusive of painting. The success of the catalogue was further confirmed by the decision of the part of Du Mont and Abrams to issue a hardback version as well, for exclusive distribution in bookstores.